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listening to this fr the first time since the great hard-drive crash abt 6 mths ago, it still sounds amazing.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Wait, why does he say squid and not quid? Is that just another slang term?

And yes it still sounds great.

― mitch dub (ano ano), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link

"Dry Your Eyes" is still the worst song ever and this thread revive has just reminded me of its existence :(

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 01:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Christ, what an album. Took me a while to "get it" -- drawn in by "Dry Your Eyes," turned off by "It Was Supposed to Be So Easy," floored when i listened to the whole thing and realized it's a fucking STORY, mate. I think it equals similar "slice of life" achievements by Raymond Carver, John Dos Passos, etc. Mike's "realization" bit in the last song ("It IS true / No one's really there fighting for you in the last garrison / No one except yourself that is / No one except you / YOU are the one who's got your back till the last deed's done / Scott can't have my back till the absolute end / Cuz he's got to look out for what's over his horizon / He's got to make sure he's not lonely, not broke / It's enough to worry about keeping his own head above"), "Empty Cans," approaches the emotional weight of anything Dylan's done.

No one is making music like this.

― PB, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Dry Your Eyes floored me totally when I heard it. That kind of honesty, man...I have a whole other kind of respect for them. I loved "You're Fit" but that [ie Dry Your Eyes] was unexpected. I haven't picked up the album though. I should, I guess...

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I hardly even noticed "Dry Your Eyes" upon first hearing Grand, but its gawky 'honesty' hit hard in a chance hearing in the midst of the JJJ [Aus 'youth' network] playlist! I'm not sure what this means.

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 01:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Dry Your Eyes == Clocks 2004

― a banana (alanbanana), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 01:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Still the best album of the 21st century so far.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...

Reminder: this is still fucking incredible.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I shop at Harvey Nicks these days.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow, was it only a year ago this came out? I have to hear it again when I get home.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 10:51 (eighteen years ago) link

still great, yes. after live 8 i listened to the wall all the way through, and then a grand DCFF. no word of a lie.

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:14 (eighteen years ago) link

in the £3 bin by the counter @ Fopp, Cambridge Circus!!!

― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link

five months pass...

From Slate's year-end round up:

Malcolm Gladwell, author, Blink:
"2005 was the year I discovered the Streets. Oh my. For the second time in 30 years, the British take an African-American musical form and wonderfully reinvent it."

http://www.slate.com/id/2133842/?nav=tap3

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 6 January 2006 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link

"oh my."

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 6 January 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link

cringe

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 6 January 2006 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

For the second time in 30 years,

What was the first time? Credit to the Nation? A Guy Called Gerald? FLEETWOOD MAC?

I MUST KNOW

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link

EMBRACE THE POWER OF RAPID COGNITION

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link

off topic but haha omg pinsky!!!:

"With each new season, the pre-adolescent characters in South Park, Col., enact more daring, unruly versions of reality. Those foul-mouthed yet innocent falsetto voices demolish cant from the left and the right. Mealy-mouthed moderation and evangelism, sanctimony secular as well as religious, get what they deserve, and the setting is a Western town a half-hour from Denver, a place where shopping mall culture and Main Street (site of "Tom's Rhinoplasty") thrive in co-existence. Even Hell and Heaven become part of the system with South Park Elementary School at the hub."

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link

For the second time in 30 years,
What was the first time? Credit to the Nation? A Guy Called Gerald? FLEETWOOD MAC?
I MUST KNOW

-- NoTimeBeforeTime (mbvarkestra197...), January 6th, 2006. (later)

seriously... what is he talking about?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm assuming he meant to say 40 years, ie., the British invasion.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link

must be. still bullshit.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

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― Phentermine, Friday, 10 February 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

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― marc h. (marc h.), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link

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― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Man the Streets are embarassing.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

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― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 February 2006 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Did anyone hear the single on 6Music today? It's twenty mins into Vic's show if you want to listen to it again. Only one person text in to say they liked it. The rest hated it. I don't remember how it went two hours later but it slightly reminded me off the African nature of Talking Heads rhythm nature (This may be a bad first impression though)

It concerns Skinner's attempts to pull a famous women (*COUGH* Rach31 St3vens!) is just as hard as pulling normal birds was pre-fame.

It sounds like a lead off single, quick , catchy (not as catchy as FBYKI though.)

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link

interesting. which one's the single?

― marc h. (marc h.), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link

When You Wasn't Famous out 27/3

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Video exclusive on 4 after The Friday Night Project (Shudder)

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

oh, that one's hilarious. the commenters must have been pranging.

― marc h. (marc h.), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link

didn't he already say 'fit but you know it' was about ilm's favourite lady?

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Out of curiousity I checked out that radio show with the new single on it.

GAAAAAAARBAGE ! Holy shit, those of you who thought the new Flaming Lips single was bad (I love it, personally) wait'll you hear this shit.

Must be heard to be believed.

― Erock Lazron, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link

why was mark's thread deleted?

― Lukas (lukas), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link

The admin log says "duped" but there's no other thread about this new album. A misunderstanding, probably.

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link

a likely story!

― Lukas (lukas), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link

turns out mine was a dupe thread! let's move the discussion here:

The new album by The Streets album is called 'The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living' and is out on April 11th

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

i hadn't listened to it in forever, but i still love "empty cans." it warms my cold heart tbh.

― purp (roxymuzak), Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link

"No one's really there fighting for you in the last garrison. No one except yourself that is; no one except you. You are the one who's got your back til the last deed's done." It's really awesome that he manages to make this sound sweet and hopeful rather than embittered and fucktheworld, imo

― purp (roxymuzak), Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link

Mike Skinner OTM.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

Oh god is this really nearly 10 years old??!

I have a distinct memory of going out to one of the best free parties on a Saturday night and picking this up from the record shop on my way home the next morning. It was a very good comedown album for that time - 'Blinded By The Lights' especially.

― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link

nooooooooooooo i refuse to believe it is 10 years old

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Thursday, 24 April 2014 18:26 (ten years ago) link

the time that it came out was a fun and great time in my life

i do remember sitting at my computer crying tears of relief at "empty cans" tho lol

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Thursday, 24 April 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link

Yeah me too Rox, 2004 was a good year. Ah the olden days...

― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Friday, 25 April 2014 09:19 (ten years ago) link

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